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[sistersarah]

i'm interested in becoming acquainted with korean literature. does anyone have any information for me on where to start? like, who are the "biggies", what the best book by a korean you've read? also, where do you go to buy good books? i recently bought some books off of seoulselection.com, but is there anywhere else? there seems to be a shortage of info on the internet....also, try asking an employer at the kyobo for fiction books or poetry by korean authors.....they don't have much!

thanks.

-sister

[seoulmon]

Two Q's:

Q number one: Are you interested in reading the book in the oridingal Korean?

Q number two: Do comic books count?

[Homer]

sistersarah...for starters I would recommend this book:

Our Twisted Hero by �� �� ��

[sistersarah]

seoulmon - i'm reading translations now, as i'm still studying and not good enough to read the original korean yet.
i'm not interested in reading comic books now. i want to know what koreans were/are writing about. i'm not discounting comic books as literature, but i'm more interested in short fiction or novels.

[Che]

Try http://www.sogang.ac.kr/~anthony/kltIndex.htm for some Korean short stories and poetry. Hope this helps. [/url]

[Che]

Sorry about link above.Let's try again.
http://www.sogang.ac.kr/~anthony/KLTIndex.htm

[Che]

Third time lucky! http://www.sogang.ac.kr/~anthony/klt/KLTIndex.htm

[Che]

Dammit.Third time lucky!
http://www.sogang.ac.kr/~anthony/klt/KLTIndex.htm

[sistersarah]

thanks, che. your link was very helpful!